5 Simple Steps To Simplifying Your Compliance Journey With a Service Mesh – Granville Schmidt, Aspen Mesh
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Five concrete steps for compliance using Istio: enable mTLS for every service and strict destination rules so sidecars encrypt and authenticate all traffic; deploy centralized policy via Pilot and Mixer to push configs; enforce service-to-service authorization with AuthorizationPolicies that only allow explicit callers; capture access logs and traces by configuring proxy logging to stdout for auditability; and use VirtualServices to control egress. These steps produce encrypted traffic, limited service blast radius, and machine-readable audit trails that map to GDPR/HIPAA/PCI-DSS controls.
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